When we write, it’s easy to get carried away, to fall in love with our own endless descriptions of whatever we personally think is amazing: sunsets, flowers, action, aliens, guns, food, sex, shoes…. But when you read your work aloud and discover you’ve spent five minutes on something, no matter how pretty the words are you have to realize you’ve gone long.

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Cass is a 22nd century university student who – like most young adults – has always believed her parents were a bit stuck in the past. But on her eighteenth birthday she learns exactly how true this is…

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Ken Altabef is an author whose writing spans a wide range of the imaginative from science fiction to fantasy to horror. ALAANA’S WAY is his epic fantasy series set in the arctic wastes, and features Inuit mythology.

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